Evan Rachel Wood

Born Sept. 7, 1987 in Raleigh, NC, Wood's interest in acting may have been due to her family's involvement in show business. Her parents, Ira David Wood and Sara Lynne Moore were actors (Ira was also a theater director and playwright), as was her brother Ira David IV, while her aunt, Carol Winstead Wood, was a production designer in Hollywood. Wood began appearing in her father's plays while still an infant, making her stage debut while only a few months old in "A Christmas Carol," and was later top-billed as Helen Keller in her father's production of "The Miracle Worker." Wood began appearing in TV movies at the age of seven. After auditioning for and losing the role of child vampire Claudi... Continue Bio >>